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Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave-ship sailing to the New World... In this fantastically imaginative in ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$19.99 NZD
$24.00 (16% off)
Category: Fictional Books | Reading Level: very good
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends ...Show more
Hello Mum by Bernardine Evaristo
$15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Quick Read
It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy's mother wonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are ...Show more
How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love by Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Bernardine Evaristo, Grace McCleen, Donal Ryan, Nikesh Shukla, D.W. Wilson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.'Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for fami ...Show more
Lara by Bernardine Evaristo
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Lara" is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo's own childhood and family history. The eponymous Lara is a mixed-race girl raised in Woolwich, a white suburb of London, during the 60s and 70s. Her father, Taiwo, is Nigerian, and her mother, Ellen, is white British ...Show more
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, tea ...Show more
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
$26.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Reading Level: very good
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo is a tragi-comic tale of homosexual love set in contemporary London. Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste i ...Show more
Soul Tourists: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he's dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets Jessie, an artiste, motormouth, ducker and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on a r ...Show more
The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER WINNER OF THE NESTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD 2003 'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and Autumn A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and ...Show more
The Emperor's Babe: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Slum tenements and sumptuous villas, drag queens and drama queens, sex as a currency and marriage as a career move: it?s Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika, daughter of Sudanese immigrants, is married off at 11 to a rich Roman three times her age who?s always away on business. She?s bored. Then she meets Empero ...Show more
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